Actor Anupam Kher, who has been jet-setting to the US and UK to act in international projects, is about get busier. The American television pilot that he filmed earlier this year has been picked by the NBC network for a series order for the 2018-2019 television season. The medical drama, titled New Amsterdam, features Dr Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) as a new medical director at one of America's understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospitals. He decides to upend the system to provide his patients with the best care possible.
The series, which films in New York, is based on Bellevue hospital, the oldest public hospital in the US. Along with Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, and Tyler Labine, Kher is part of the cast as Dr Anil Kapoor, one of the hospital's resident doctors. The actor had shared the happy news of his show getting picked up with photos of him with the cast during filming breaks.
The 65-year-old actor is currently in Belfast, Ireland shooting for a BBC series called Mrs Wilson, starring Ruth Wilson.